The tight fight between the 'roosters' and the 'chicks'

• Rest day: Covid controls stress the Tour peloton

After a day of rest and PCR tests, the Tour de France peloton is back on the road in a flat tenth stage that is dangerous due to the possible action of the wind.

The day without competition has shown that none of the favorites have them all with them or give anything for won or lost.

Roglic leads the general classification, with 21 seconds over the last winner, Bernal;

at 28 is the French Guillaume Martin (impressive the philosopher of Cofidis), at 30 Bardet, at 32 Quintana, at 33 Urán, at 44 Pocagar, at 1:02 Adam Yates, at 1:15 Supermán López, at 1:42 Landa , at 1:53.

Porte ya 2:02 Enric Mas.

Colombian

, leader of Astana,

recounts

on the first day of rest of his first Tour de France, that this race "which, like all the others, goes by bicycle" is lived with greater tension.

"The Tour is the father of the chicks," he concludes.

And he, who is not a chick - although he was only

- sees how other little 'pipiolos' handle the roost and are scared, especially the Slovenian

(UAE Emirates), 21 years old , the strongest in the first nine days.

It is supported by the Tour leader, his compatriot

(Jumbo-Visma), who has already seen how a single man can destroy the yellow battleship that is in charge of the event until Pogacar changes the pace on the slopes.

"

, there is no one who has that strength right now,"

certifies

in a press conference with the leader of the Movistar Team,

, who is not a 'chick' at 25 years old either. , now that he disputes the 'dad race' for the second time.

The Mallorcan is moderately satisfied with the result of these nine days and hopes that Roglic's Jumbo will deflate with the days.

"

. We hope that it will be like that, and the day we touch we will play our cards and try to do well."

It seems that he is becoming convinced that his legs are worth more than a top 10 or 15, the modest goal he made explicit on the eve of the 'Grand Depart' in Nice.

"I am ambitious," he says now.

Valverde was struck, he says, that the Jumbo Visma went crazy on Sunday to ruin the party for another impressive 'chick', the Swiss

, "who was not a risk for the general."

, even though he does not feel with the spark he had before his 40th birthday.

His experience is at the service of Enric Mas.

Valverde is not the only one who criticizes the Jumbo-Visma.

He has received friendly fire from

, who is not in France due to his injury at Dauphiné.

says the Dutchman in defense of his compatriot against the all-encompassing power that the Slovenian leader has won.

Roglic is oblivious to these value judgments

and considers that his main enemy is his very young compatriot.

Meanwhile, on the French side,

says he does not see how he is going to take away from the leader of the general the half minute that he takes out in that classification.

"I'll go in stages," he says.

Something that even the great loser of this phase of the Tour de France,

cannot say

.

The medical examinations of the rest day have revealed "bruises in the sacral muscles and an inflammation in the sacrum without fracture."

The crash in Nice has left him battered and unsuccessful in his attempt to return to the podium in Paris.

Nairo Quintana

is also happy in his 30s and with the experience in his favor, he says.

Now, he considers it likely that Pogacar will hold up to this level for three weeks: "He already showed he can do it in the Vuelta" last year.

For his part, the Boyacense awaits his moment, the mountains of altitude that must better adjust to his qualities than those that have been climbed these days.

Wait for the moment.

It is also

, who with an Ineos-Grenadier less spectacular than the usual one, with pain in his back and some symptoms of weakness, is second overall.

He has said that he is very happy with the way things have turned for him and, of course, that he hopes things go better for him.

The defending champion is going for his second win.

Mikel Landa

also awaits the mountain of the third week to show his true qualities: those of an excellent climber and that of a long-distance runner who reaches the end of the Grand Tours stronger than most of his rivals.

The podium, he said, is a goal.

.

His performances in the Pyrenees have taken away the sadness of losing 1:21 at Lavaur for not getting into the fan.

He will still have to suffer, without going any further this Tuesday, where the wind can re-create chaos on a flat stage between Atlantic islands.

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